ocr: ( Factile la E b The newspaper's launch on May 4, 1896, was the beginning of a great adventure, and the birth of modern journalism. At the close of the century, newspapers had lost their way. They amounted to little more than verbatim account S of political speeches, un- edited court reports, and lists from the money ma arkets, presented in column atter column of close-spaced type with few or no illustrations. Newspaper bosses despaired about circulation figures and wondered why they did not increase. The A1s0Er was that they provided nothing more than ponderous reading for businessmen, with l ...
